Word: convoying
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...Terrorists in the Riff mountains ambushed a French ambulance convoy, killed 19 soldiers and wounded...
...Western Approaches in the fight against Nazi U-boats (1941-42), commander in chief of the China Station (1938-40); of coronary thrombosis; in London. Regarded as a top naval strategist, destroyer-trained Sir Percy organized the British defenses that helped keep World War II's North Atlantic convoy routes open...
Whether writing of the 1490s ("It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour . . . the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil") or of a convoy in the 1940s ("Around the columns is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy"), Sam Morison could write...
...minutes, 168 professional men and women (including 50 doctors) and 150 medical students gathered in an auditorium and 116 vehicles massed in the parking lot. Next snag: when the first convoy was ready to roll at 7:30, the one man authorized to order it out could not be found. He, in turn, was hunting for the one doctor qualified to say that it was set to go. That cost 33 precious minutes. Said Dr. James Schofield: "We made a basic error trying to spare people's feelings. There's got to be just one boss...
...battle against Japan. While ripping up shipping all around the Western Pacific, he tangles with "Bungo Pete," the cunning old Japanese ex-submariner whose beaten-up destroyer guards the southern approaches to Japan's Inland Sea. Though Commander Richardson's Walrus blows a whole Japanese convoy apart, a shell from Bungo Pete cracks Richardson's leg. After sweating out the hospital and a stretch of shore duty in Hawaii, he learns that Bungo Pete has sunk the Walrus, skippered by his former executive officer. With a fury worthy of Melville's Captain Ahab, Richardson takes another...